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CALL FOR PAPERS
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22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2020), 2-6 November 2020, Singapore (subject to changes, including backup options such as postponing the conference or hosting it online).

http://formal-analysis.com/icfem/2020/

Extended deadlines:
Full Paper Submissions Due: 24 May 2020 (AoE)
Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Due: 20 March 2020
Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 5 July 2020
Camera-ready Due: 17 July 2020

Since 1997, ICFEM provides a forum for both researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing practical formal methods for software engineering or applying existing formal techniques to improve software development process in practice systems. Formal Methods for the development of computer systems have been extensively researched and studied. We now have good theoretical understandings of how to describe what programs do, how they do it, and why they work. A range of semantic theories, specification languages, design techniques, verification methods, and supporting tools have been developed and applied to the construction of programs of moderate size that are used in critical applications. The remaining challenge now is how to deal with problems in developing and maintaining large scale and complex computer systems.

The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to help advance state of the art. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical, tangible engineering benefits.

Scope and Topics:
Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal engineering methods and their practical applications will also be considered:

• Abstraction, refinement and evolution
• Formal specification and modelling
• Formal verification and analysis
• Model checking
• Formal approaches to software testing and inspection
• Formal methods for self-adaptive systems
• Formal methods for object-oriented systems
• Formal methods for component-based systems
• Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems
• Formal methods for cloud computing
• Formal methods for cyber-physical systems
• Formal methods for software safety and security
• Formal methods for software reliability and dependability
• Development, integration and experiments involving verified systems
• Formal certification of products under international standards
• Formal model-based development and code generation

Submission and Publication:
Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format. Submissions should be made through the ICFEM 2020 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference management system.

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem20

Workshop or tutorial proposals should be directly sent to the Workshop Chair via email. Each proposal should include (1) title, scope, and aims, (2) brief bio of the organizer or lecturer, and (3) postal and email addresses.

Organising Committee:

General Chair
Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore and Griffith University, Singapore/Australia
Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia​

Program Co-Chairs
Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia
Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology, Australia​

Finance Chair
Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Workshop Chair
Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia

Doctoral Symposium Chair
Lei Ma, Kyushu University, Japan

Program Committee
Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France
Étienne André, Univesrity of Lorraine, France
Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Christian Attiogbe, University of Nantes, France
Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Australia
Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany
Richard Banach, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal
Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia
Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, United Kingdom
Yuting Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China
Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Yean-Ru Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ranald Clouston, Australian National University, Australia
Sylvain Conchon, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Florin Craciun, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Jeremy Dawson, Australian National University, Australia
Frank De Boer, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands
Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China
Jin Song Dong, Griffith University and NUS, Australia
Naipeng Dong, University of Queensland, Australia
Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China​
Marc Frappier, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Xudong He, Florida International University, United States
Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia
Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Fabrice Kordon, LIP6/Sorbonne Universite & CNRS, France
Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China
Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China
Shuang Liu, Tianjin University, China
Brendan Mahony, DSTO, Australia
Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia​
Dominique Mery, Université de Lorraine, France
Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy, France
Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Yu Pei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom
Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst, Italy
Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy
Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
David Sanan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Zhejiang University, China
Harald Sondergaard, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Meng Sun, Peking University, China
Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Alwen Tiu, The Australian National University, Australia
Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden
Hai H. Wang, University of Aston, United Kingdom
Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France
Zhiwu Xu, Shenzhen University, China
Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark
Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway